election doesn't exist the more rope we give the sooner we are all. an attack on journalism and a direct assault on the 1st amendment reaction is pouring in from media freedom groups as u.s. authorities filed 17 new charges against each carrying a maximum of 10 years in jail. a 21 month old venezuelan girl is unable to continue with the liver transplant treatment because u.s. sanctions have blocked the charity that was paying for it. in all my situation she could die. and the philippines is threatening to dump tons of non-recyclable rubbish into canadian territorial waters should ottawa fail to take it back. to start shipping it by next week with canada pleading for more time.

it's 11 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r t international line from our studio with me welcome to the program media freedom groups are raising the alarm over the 17 new charges filed against you by the u.s. department of justice activists say this sets a dangerous precedent where a journalist can be criminally prosecuted for publishing truthful information with some going as far as to claim the u.s. has declared war on journalism. there spinouts indictment of his sons for bob listening is an extremely dangerous frontal attack on the free press bad bad bad the department of justice just declared war not when we can expose our journalism itself this is no longer birju in the songs this case will decide the future of

media any government use of the espionage act to criminalize the receipts and publication of classified information poses a diet threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the sun is not a journalist i think that julian assange has put out the most important journalism of my entire lifetime i can't think of anyone who has made a bigger impact on the world i mean he's been nominated for a nobel peace prize pretty much every year for the last 10 years i believe he's won countless awards for his publishing including to this month. to say that he's not a journalist is is asinine it's ridiculous he actually puts in things that change the world and it's. that people thing that he is not a journalist it's just me i think it's absolutely a thing. you saw there came to a head early in april when the ecuadorian authorities were treated before there was

asylum and a victim from ecuador. letting the british police out of the premises to try him out he was subsequently sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for jumping bail and 2012 at the time we was wanted in sweden in connection with the sexual assault case however he fled to the ecuadorian embassy entering her claims that he'd be extradited. takes a look at the charges he's now facing. u.s. justice department announcing on 17 new charges being leveled against julian saw and a result of his leadership and editorship of wiki leaks and we understand that's come from a federal grand jury. in virginia returned that new indictment and it comes after mr sands was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy and according to rules if they want the us studies to extradite mr science they have only 60 days from the point of his arrest to add those charges and we are within that period and that's

probably why we are seeing this flurry of new accusations flying against the former wiki leaks added and the u.s. justice department releasing a statement as to their reasoning behind this latest development a federal grand jury returned an 18 count superseding indictment today charging julian p. songe 47 the founder of wiki leaks with offenses that relate to a songes a legit role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states the superseding indictment alleges that his son was complicit with chelsea manning a former intelligence analyst in the us army in unlawfully obtaining an disclosing classified documents related to the national defense now their accusations center around claims that mr assad has violated u.s. national security violated the law by taking in soliciting they say classified

information from then bradley manning now chelsea manning miss manning was sentenced to jail for 35 years before being pardoned by the former u.s. president barack obama she herself has been subpoenaed again to testify in this case and has refused to do so reportedly telling the judge that she would rather starve to death than testify she would argue as would mr signs and others that their journalists merely acting in the public interest whereas the u.s. government argument is that this was a their national security and as a result of that and this manning's resulting decision not to testify she remains in prison and it will remain to be seen exactly what happens to mr science as a result of these indictments. mind you here are some of the big revelations made by our stars over the years 2010 thousands of documents are classified that here relates to the wars in iraq and afghanistan were made public that leaked details of

my friends and destruction to the civilians in iraq and even if they turned from the so-called can't reveal from routine torture at the guantanamo bay com and. resulting from harsh treatment and in trying to 16 wiki leaks revealed appropriate to the media bias to return to 16 presidential campaigns and a plot to push bernie sanders out of the race political activist kevin zeese says washington is taking revenge on a song. i think you are reasons why they haven't done this in the past is because our songs was democratizing the media he was broadening the people who could report people inside government inside corporations good leaked classified documents anonymously they want to frighten the media into not covering u.s. activity around the world the u.s. is also involved in there to be that could be characterized as war crime certainly atrocities and certainly also the corruption of our transnational corporations that

was all the time i was reporting and they obviously offended with you it's obvious you don't do united states but i challenge the military industrial intelligence complex here and they want revenge and they want to send a message to any other journalist who dares tries to expose there's more than one case of whistleblowers in the u.s. being punished for media leaks a former f.b.i. agent terry albury asked by data on how the informants for which he got a 4 year sentence reality when i was working as and i say contract the top secret information on the alleged russian interference she received 63 months behind bars and john korea to disclose details of the cia's torture program and was sentenced for 2 and a half years here's what he thinks about his future. i think that they're going to try to make an example of julian he's been charged in the eastern district of virginia and is judge was also my judge and snowden's judge and jeffrey sterling's

judge who reserves every national security case for herself she's a hanging judge and she will not give him a fair trial it will be impossible for julian to receive a fair trial in the eastern district of virginia so i think that they're going to try to extradite him as quickly as possible and they're going to try to give him as many years as they possibly can the point is too great we're everybody to the point where they don't dare compromise something that might even possibly be classified this is meant to create a chilling effect all across the media not just among americans but everybody around the world. meanwhile journalists in france are also feeling the hate i reporter at le monde newspaper has been summoned to appear before the country's intelligence services arianna schemin broke the story of president micron's aide who beat up a protester at a rally last year the man's editorial director says the development is worrying as

she's the 5th journalist who's recently been summoned in this way we'll delve deeper into this story later on in the bulletin. tens of non-recyclable waste may end up in canadian a territorial waters of the country doesn't take it back from the philippines and that's the warning of president roderick tatay has vowed to start shipping the trash to ottawa by next week despite a kind of plea for more time the spot is part of a wider trend of rich countries using poor ones as their dumping ground. reports. few of us ever wonder where all our trash goes are plastic bottle of old t.v.'s baby guy put you put in the bin and gone says recycling get. and feel good about it but it doesn't disappear it isn't all recycled much of it shipped away for poor people to deal with. obviously canada is not taking

this issue nor account you seriously the filipino people are grimly insulted about canada treating this country as a dump site imagine the surprise in the philippines when dozens and dozens of recycling waste containers they got from canada turned out to be packed with just trash household rubbish diapers that sort of stuff recyclable obviously this happened hoffer a decade ago and it took the filipino president threatening armed conflict to get canada to take its trash back in the middle of the night and build it water this guy human that is. lord it. 2 is then i would advise going to. your garbage. on a lovely big bear is grounded if that you don't. feed it if you want to can you

imagine it war over canadian trash there were other creative threats the philippines threatened to dump rubbish and cattle the territorial waters unless they acted they did eventually all well promised to we are looking forward to having a solution to present to canadian shortly and to and to our filipino partners we're going to continue to work on this because this is a situation that is unacceptable and has gone on for far too long kennedy's police announced that he has awarded a contract to bring the waste back promptly and to ensure its safe and environmentally sound disposal canada has amended its regulations to prevent this from happening again and easily looking at ways to hold the responsible parties to account. been happening for decades your old phones sent to developing countries and in some cases for kids to deal with for them to smash electronics with hammers

and pry out the valuable parts and burned to dumped toxins and chemicals leaching into the ground into water and land it isn't pretty cargo ships blitzed alternative destinations vietnam malaysia thailand well over age and africa.

garners been taking in european alex wodak sways for decades and i promise you there are very few nonpolluting recycling plants there it used to be that china was the world's recycling capital they got sick of it too much pollution waste band importing certain rubbish and others following in their example malaysia will not be the dumping ground of the world we will send the waste back to their original countries i will take care of my own rubbish you should take care of use there are conventions of the basil convention for example the point of which was to stop the rich countries from dumping all their waste on poor nations but there are no punishments violates the will it's simple economics for most waste recycling properly is difficult expensive but dumping waste on those desperate enough to go through it by hand manually at cheaper question now is where will north

america europe send all their waste when the poor have had enough. when president clinton gave them and beats faster i think you can deconstruct the message they're going to pay for that more $1000000.00 in order to take care of this not just accept financial. eat already stressed mechanics to be taking back their support busy for developing countries like the philippines to ensure that they are not companies or individuals in the government who do these kinds of deals right because what china did the it was essentially god the private canadian company violated the base of convention beach go for the movement of toxic materials for developing between developing and developed countries in coordination in time that would some filipina concert so there has to be a domestic crackdown and punishment of these kinds of companies and individuals but

it is sent out there also mustn't be mauled a lot there left for development going to stop to come together maybe the us to come together all along each and other developing countries and make it very clear that they're no longer willing to take this kind of talk he tries. to some families in venice way now washington's efforts to topple the need to ship in caracas a helping and diane impact the parents of one young girl as she is now unable to receive the treatment she often had with a transplant because the charity that was funding it is on the u.s. sanctions list.

is about his parents took her to argentina where her mother became a donor and last november doctors carry out a transplant but then isabella experience post-operative complications requiring change treatment is about his father says she's suffering from this difficulties now. already very serious currently she is showing a slight rejection because 1st she didn't continue with her treatment properly as she should have secondly her body has to accept that little piece of liver that her mother donated right now her body is rejecting it because according to the experts it is something that happens in any case because the organism adapting to the body one possibility is that her body will be able to accept it on its own the other is

that it will require medical treatment and very specific care the. u.s. imposed sanctions on venezuela in january that target the country's main oil company which funds a number of charities that help sick children 7000000000 dollars in assets were blocked by washington the u.s. says these sanctions are aimed at toppling what it brands the dictatorship of current president nicolas maduro. wish them well we'll be there to help them and we are there to help action ensures they can no longer loot flee assets of the venezuelan people we're taking action against a vital source for them. there are regimes well. meanwhile isabella is not the only child whose treatment depends on charities from the threat us foreign minister says children's lives are being put in danger by us sanctions is about us father thinks it's unfair that his daughter and other children have to suffer. the blockade is directed against the people my daughter because she is not able to continue with

her post transplant treatment and now she is in a life threatening situation she could die her organ could fail it's so sad that due to someone else's whim they are blocking resources for this mission when i meet this mission is the initiative of the venezuelan government to meet the needs of sick children suffering from chronic diseases that cannot be treated in the country that on their own trumps war with democrats might be dragging america into another war in the middle east is next after this break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in. stand this is just the dance the right questions to the right answer. question. there's a cyclical nature to things to stick globalization there's globalization there's lowering interest rates there's rising interest rates so when interest rates rise. the impact it is said will be instantaneous. welcome back to the program leading french journalist who broke the story about

president emanuel micron's and beating up a protester has been summoned to appear before the country's intelligence services is the 5th such a recent case prompting grave concern for me to freedoms in the country due bensky picks up the story. the along has already sounded here in france about possible infringement on media freedom and now it's ringing even the loudest still with a 5th journalist haven't been summons to meet with the country's intelligence services . this is. a seasoned journalist from the french daily and last year she broke an explosive story concerning a security aide to president and manual macor it's scented only this man alexander who was accused of beating up the may day protests is in 2018 whilst wearing a police helmet videos also emerged of the incident.

was. since then she has continued to write about the banal or a fair point in the history of the current administration is being accused of covering up the affair was. failing to report to the authorities and while banal a was the latest sacked he remains the subject of a number of ongoing inquiries limone says it's concerned by the summons and stands by its articles. it is in the public interest to be able to investigate aides inside the police say in the matin yonge and their outside links and associates the new summons is all the more worrying as it follows a similar procedure used very recently gainst other journalists what he's talking

about there is the fact that the secret service here have already questioned 3 journalists who publish details how french soldiers saudi arabia and the united arab emirates were being used in the war in yemen their investigation was based on a leaked military intelligence dossier showing that tanks artillery and ships are being used in yemen something the government has repeatedly denied with president saying he's even received assurances that french weapons are not being used in yemen and that is said to stand from disclose is one of those who was questioned he told r.t. it immense to intimidation. of course we were very surprised that we were summoned because it's unusual for journalists to be treated in this way we were summoned yesterday morning disclosing national defense secrets we were told from the beginning that we were not there is journalists and the case would be decoupled

from our role as journalists i think the freedom of speech needs to be supported by as many people as possible this is not an isolated case there have been many documented instances of intimidation especially during rallies. a 4th journalist has also been summoned as a witness in this inquiry over whether these journalists compromise national defense secrecy it's provoked outrage from human rights organizations the undersigned n.g.o.s consider the information unveiled by disclose and its partners to be of essential public interest the threat of prosecution against the 3 journalists constitutes an unacceptable threat to press freedom and the protection of journalistic sources $37.00. media outlets in france of also voiced support for their quali ex saying they were just doing their jobs the fear now is that these actions could constitute pressure on journalists particularly in

a bid to reveal their sources something that would break the professions code of ethics so it deviant ski arty paris. don't trump is prepared to do anything to escape the possibility of impeachment including starting a war with iran according to one u.s. democrat. i believe that the president of the united states is on the cusp of taking us to war without the consent of congress because he fears impeachment just think about it now we're at war with iran everybody is afraid of iran the whole middle east is in turmoil and we are impeaching a president in his latest statement the us president says that he doesn't think additional troops are needed in the middle east adding though that he's ready to send more in to confront iran transacting defense secretary however has been more adamant about the matter confirming that the american presence needs to be bolstered. do you consider sending troops to the middle east to go into iraq no i

don't think we'll need it but if we need it we'll have we'll be there in whatever number we need what we're looking for there are things that we do force protection steps which just tricks this big city we have now heard from the pentagon's acting chief that would be patrick shanahan and he has confirmed that yes indeed the reports that it is being considered for in an increase in the u.s. military presence the sending of more troops to the middle east that is indeed correct now he denied these specific numbers that were being raised in some of the press reports we've also heard a response from the iranian president hassan rouhani he has said that iran is ready to face any pressure and to defend itself even if the usa ends up using bombs against his country they are prepared to stand strong and defend themselves now on wednesday the u.s. senate foreign relations committee took a vote and the idea of the vote would be to not fund any unauthorized action

against iran taken by the white house now the vote did not pass it failed now in response to the vote not passing we heard from senator chris murphy he's a democrat and he warned that the trumpet ministration could utilize certain loopholes in the existing u.s. law in order to carry out a strike against iran without the authorization of congress secretary of state mike pompei o along with acting pentagon chief patrick shanahan recently went to capitol hill for a meeting behind closed doors with members of both the house and senate members of congress not everyone was too happy with how that meeting went. very much but intentionally or unintentionally we can create a situation in which a war will take place a war that will go on and on and on. and that's been our worry from the beginning

that this is a blind escalation with the hope that the arabians will come to the table and the best thing diaphanous for everybody to come down in iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalate now a recent poll was conducted among the american people to see how they feel about the danger and possibility of an escalation with the islamic republic of iran now the poll showed that more than half of americans do believe that in the coming years there will be a war between the usa and iran however only 12 percent favored a 1st strike favored the usa launching this war while over 60 percent were adamant that the usa should not launch such a conflict should not take action to spark a conflict between the 2 countries so at this point as many are nervous about the apparent escalation about the talk of u.s. troops on their way to the region many people are keeping their eye not only on the middle east but also on capitol hill and on the white house wondering what will

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